Drawing from both his experience as a prisoner and partisan there during World War II and his research for a degree in Jewish History he received in Israel, Yones examines Jews in the multicultural city of Lvov, capital of Eastern Galicia and now part of the Ukraine. He describes both the Soviet and the German occupations, but spends more time on the German. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)